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and came out the same way.
"The white slavers were attracted
by the mass of jobless, girls and soon
I was told of girls who had been ap
proached. Inthis difficulty the Com
missioner 01 .runup wunts wumeu
with me, also, and he threatened to
arrest any man caught speaking to
the girls.
"The strike was settled in a week,
in time for the 15,000 people to be
back to work before Christmas, and
the day it was settled and my girls
came into the church, I was touched
deeply by the expressions of love
those girls used toward me. Though
they were of many nationalities, their
name for me was Mother.
"It is a wonderful memory that one
has helped working women, for there
is no more worthy ause, and I can
not help deploring that Chicago has
not a mayor like Mayor Lunn and a
police ftfrce like the one in Schenec
tady, which is today one of the most
strongly organized cities in the coun
try, and possesses the best working
conditions."
Mentally I compared Mrs. Bloor,
who is a grandmother, and who is so
sweet and gentle when she is talking
to one, with the woman who stood in
front of Henrici's for three days
with a hard stare in her eyes and a
grim set to her jaw, fighting against
those girl pickets and apparently en
joying the battle.
And I wondered if Mrs. Bloor was
not right in saying that the woman
who fights with capital against work
ing women is a disgrace not only to
her class, but to her sex.
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HOW THE SENATE LINED UP ON
THAT PARCEL POST DEAL
By Gilson Gardner.
Washington, March 3. In the fight
to save the parcel post there was only
one vote to spare on the senate roll
call. An amendment was offered by
Senator Bankhead of Alabama pro
viding that no sum appropriated for
carrying fourth-class mail matter
could be used for carrying a greater
weight than 50 pounds in any one
package, without authority being
first obtained from congress. The
vote on this was the test vote and the
line-up between the friends of parcel
post and the friends of the express
companies.
If this amendment had been adopt
ed the postmaster general would
have been prohibited from extending
the weight limits beyond the 50
pound line, thus leaving all that class
of business for the express com
panies. On this line-,up, those who
voted yes (for the express companies
and against the people) were: Bank
head, Ala.; Brady, Idaho; Bristow,
Kan.; BryanFla.; Catron, N. Mex'.;
Clark, Wyo.; Cummins, Iowa; Dilling
ham, Vt.; Gallinger, N. H.; Hitchcock,
Neb.; Hollis, N. H.; Hughes, N. J.;
Lippert, R. I; Lodge, Mass.; McCum
ber, N. Dak.; Nelson, Minn.; Oliver,
Pa.; Page, Vt.; Perkins, Cal.; Rans
dell, La.; Sherman, 111.; Simmons, N.
Car.; Smoot, Utah.; Stephenson,
Wis.; Sterling, S. Dak.; Sutherland,
Utah; Weeks, Mass.
Those who saved the parcel post
were: Asnurst, Ariz.; unamberlain,
Ore.; Clapp, Minn.; Gronna, N. Dak.;
James, Ky.; Jones, Wash.; Kern, Ind.;
LaFollette, Wis.; Lane, Ore.; Lee,
Md.; Martine; Norris, Neb.; Overman,
N. C.; Poindexter, Wash.; Pomerene,
Ohio; Reed, Mo.; Robinson, Ark.;
Saulsbury, Md.; Shafroth, Col.; Shep-
pard, Tex.; Shively, Ind.; Smith, Md.;
Swanson, Va.; Thompson, Kan.; Till
man, S. C; Townsend, Mich.; Vard
man, Miss.; Works, Cal.
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TOMMY'REALLY WORKING
Pittsburgh, March. 3. "Tommy"
Manville, Jr., son of the New York, .
Milwaukee and Pittsburgh "Asbestos
King," was working today, with his
father reconciled to his wedding widh
Florence Huber, a chorus girl. He
was filling a position as box mailer in
the Johns-Manville company here. By
working Tommy -was adding $12.50
per week to his income of $10,000
per year. .
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